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Aug 21, 2026 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

Xerox music is here at last! Don't Back the Front brings you DIY weird waves from the classic punk era through today. All with extra saxophone!

(Your DJ reserves the right to play indie pop)

back from the Philadelphia Folk Festival and playing FOLK MUSIC!

8:01 PM		Elizabeth Cotten Freight Train Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1989 Played at the 2nd (1963) and 25th (1986) Folk Festivals
8:03 PM		Pete Seeger Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Pete Seeger Sings Woody Guthrie Folkways Records 1966
8:14 PM		Arlo Guthrie Coming into Los Angeles Running Down the Road (Remastered 2004) Rising Son Records 1969
8:16 PM		Mississippi Fred McDowell You Gotta Move The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell Arhoolie Records 2001
8:18 PM		Doc Watson The Train that Carried My Girl from Town Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2002
8:21 PM		Phil Ochs Links On the Chain I Ain't Marching Anymore Rhino/Elektra 1965
8:25 PM		Mississippi John Hurt Stack o' Lee Blues 1928 Sessions Yazoo 1987
8:28 PM		Steve Goodman The Dutchman Somebody Else's Troubles Buddha Records 1972
8:39 PM		Billy Bragg & Joe Henry Rock Island Line Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad Cooking Vinyl 2016
8:41 PM		Billy Faier Longhorn Express The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose: American Primitive Guitar & Banjo (1963-1974) Craft Recordings 2018
8:45 PM		Buell Kazee Wagoner's Lad Buell Kazee: Sings and Plays Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records 1958
8:50 PM		Lead Belly The Midnight Special Lead Belly: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2015
8:52 PM		Dave Van Ronk Come Back Baby Dave Van Ronk Sings Folkways Records 1961
8:56 PM		The Stanley Brothers Rabbit In a Log Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways V/A Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2002
8:58 PM		Tom Rush Mole's Moan Got A Mind To Ramble Prestige 1964
9:08 PM		John Hartford Gentle On My Mind Earthwords & Music RCA/Legacy 1966
9:13 PM		The Incredible String Band Dust Be Diamonds Changing Horses Rhino/Elektra 1968
9:16 PM		Goldrust Going Yesterday Someone Like Me Efficient Space 2024
9:19 PM		Hedge & Donna Little Child Hedge & Donna 2 Capitol Records 1968
9:25 PM		Pentangle Sally Go Round the Roses Basket of Light Castle Communications 1969
9:29 PM		Field Commander Ali Wildegeeses The Next From Field Commander World of Echo 2026
9:37 PM		Tim Buckley Buzzin' Fly Happy Sad Rhino/Elektra 1968
9:43 PM		John Denver Sail Away Home Whose Garden Was This RCA/Legacy 1970
9:46 PM		Bert Jansch Running from Home Bert Jansch Sanctuary 1965
9:49 PM		Maxine Funke Cherry Blossom Gin River Said Disciples 2023
9:53 PM		Maki Asakawa Konna Fu Ni Sugite Yukunonara (Single Version) Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973 EMI MUSIC JAPAN INC. 2017
9:56 PM		Leah Senior Winter Pt. Roadknight Third Eye Stimuli Records 2026
10:06 PM		John Martyn Over the Hill Solid Air Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1973
10:08 PM		Nico These Days Chelsea Girl Polydor 1967
10:11 PM		Richard Thompson Beeswing Mirror Blue Capitol Records 1994
10:17 PM		Cinder Well Of Nettles and Roses A Blooming Body 2026
10:23 PM		Robbie Basho Night Way Visions of the Country Windham Hill/Legacy 1978
10:29 PM		Marisa Anderson Quodlibet The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music Thrill Jockey 2026 Afghan folk song
10:29 PM		Wendy Eisenberg It's Here Wendy Eisenberg Joyful Noise Recordings 2026
10:35 PM		John Prine Hello In There John Prine Rhino Atlantic 1971
10:39 PM		Gene Clark With Tomorrow White Light (Remastered) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1970
10:41 PM		Linda Perhacs Hey, Who Really Cares Parallelograms Geffen 1969
10:44 PM		Brigid Mae Power I Must Have Been Blind Dream From The Deep Well Fire Records 2023
10:48 PM		Karen Dalton Something on Your Mind In My Own Time Light In The Attic 1970
10:57 PM		Tom Rush Lost My Drivin' Wheel Tom Rush Columbia 1970

Chat is archived.

don't touch my bags if you please, mr. mustache man

Elizabeth Cotten! Famous for her self-proclaimed "Cotten picking style" of playing

What up Dana?

That’s my cousin

hey marcus!

Yesssss

hi boys

Did you post about this to the FF group

I did not

I'm terrible at self promotion

Do it! Even if it only gets a few more people listening, I'm sure it'll make folks happy it's happening. Also will be useful when we ask the board to put us in charge of booking.

I knew about it, I was promoted to

I've got my hands full at the moment!

Thought John W. was subbing. :)

Let's folking GO, folks 🪕\m/ 💥

I was there in a papoose in 1970

Yeah roffle, thought it was suddenly Sunday at 6pm

Hi Dana and Yoni, I recently saw a complete unknown and loved it, even if I’m not folky. I think Philly FF is our answer to older Newport Folk Fest.

Hippy parents and a camper van

Hey John and Jimbo!

First PFF was in 1962

I used to work in same building as WIOQ and wold see acts going in the studio with Gene Shay.

I miss Gene so much.

And I welcome any comparison to John Weingart!

Your sub for Mr. Weingart was stellar. So says I. :)

The man understands Americana.

You did not drop a beat

I loved filling in for him!

Stack o' Leee became Stagger Lee?

yes!

Stagger Lee is from 1895 according to the Internet

I think it was earliest known as Stack O Lee. But there's obviously a million variants.

How about something from John Allison's "Witches and War-Whoops"

I was there

evening dana bash the front

Train songs!

Hi Ossy!

I forgot to set my alarm. I am not far from that. Duh me!

If you want to play another modern cover, there's that Mischief Brew version of The Mary Ellen Carter up on BC. Can send over the link.

"ride it like you're flying" - people used to dress up to get on a plane

Hey Dana K! I didn’t run into you at fest this year, but I’m just tuning in to help prevent withdrawal

Hi Bud! I'm still experiencing fest withdrawal too!

Good day to you. I said good day!

Howdy everyone

Steve: is that from Willy Wonka?

Hi Rob!

Hi Steve!

Here with a leftover fest beer 🎼

I rewatched O Brother Where Art Thou somewhat recently but I think it's time to rewatch Inside Llewyn Davis

Hello FOLKSTER

Yesss

@Marcus: Not consciously.

Great show!

Thank you!!

Very pleasantly surprised how much I’m enjoying this folk show Dana! A great change of pace for a cool summer night.

I think I cried while listening to Husker Du once

I've seen video crying at the 9:30 Club when Rites of Spring are playing in the 80's

There’s no crying in punk rock, just like crying in baseball.

Hi Dana K! Sorry to tune in late to this evening's festivities, looks like a great playlist so far

Marcus, I might cry if I saw a live Rites of Spring video

Hey Chris! So nice to meet you yesterday!

DC Punk band Marginal Man s Forever Gone will bring out serious tears….

I think I've cried listening to Husker Du too

Iggy Pop's 1991 Brick by Brick came out right before my dad died. It helped get me through. I always choke up for that

And "Sound on Sound" by Big Boys

Yeah definitely Huskef Du !

Incredible String Band played the Fest in 1969

I cried to What Now by Dagnasty something about it got to me

Same, Dana!

I cry, or fight back tears, to many many old songs. "Marquee Moon" by Television comes to mind

I’m very proud of everyone shedding tears for incredible bands

:)..

I’ve probably cried at a punk show when I’ve gotten a little too close to the mosh pit and taken a hard elbow

I cry at a lot of music, movies and TV. I'm a weepy sort.

I cry quite often when consuming media but it's been excessive since I got home from the Folk Music

*Folk Fest, but getting home from the Folk Music also makes sense

Pentangle!!

And thanks for calling out the legendary Gene Shay

Or, The Mighty Pentangle, as they're known to me.

I’m claiming it, she put this on because I wouldn’t shut up about Pentangle

You mentioned it once!

But yes that is where I got the idea

A peak behind the curtain, we have a group chat for yapping mostly about music, some of that ends up on the show

This show has been aces. Over at Val's eating pancakes. Perfect pancakes with cat music.

The lesbian bar or the cat's house?

Or are they the same?

love adore pancakes and waffles, especially with jelly, raisins and chocolate chips

Are you dancing at the lesbian bar?

Cats house. And lesbian bar. And yes, we are dancing.

Half regular, half chocolate chip and walnuts

Mammals are noted for their complex emotional responses. It's only humans who try to bury it. "Oh baby, what a place to be, in the service of the bourgeoisie. Where can my believers be? I wanna jump into the endless sea." - Iggy Pop

Interracial marriage was illegal until Loving vs Virginia 1967

We all cry when we are helpless to change things OR when we get a boo boo and need a Band-Aid. The list is probably more extensive..

Musical journey's and films take a spot in the mix.

it's John Denver time!!

John Denver and Hunter Thompson were neighbors and they hated each other.

Got rich, bought an experimental aircraft and died. My kinda guy!

Tim Buckley in a place and time of his own

John Denver was also a Muppet

Buckley's lead guitarist, Lee Underwood, lived in Princeton in the mid-60s, and apparently died in July

Oh, I didn't know that! Thanks Jim.

I could imagine Hunter complaining about John Denver, it would be hilarious to hear

He hated him because his first wife, Sandy's thought he was cute. Denver hated Thompson because he was a dick who blew up shit and terrorized him.

John Denver was maybe my favorite singer when I was in high school

Not just Pentangle, but solo Bert, too. Woot!

He would come and play with us in the Princeton Folk Music Society......he was a better player than us all

Speaking of Bert Jansch and songs to cry to - his version of Blues Run the Game

INSTANT tears.

He tweaked a couple chords in an already great song and made it more hauntingly beautiful

So Thompson fucked with Denver's Rocky Mountain High? I have a moment to laugh out loud! The too funny!

Feel like I just went through a thermal layer. :)

Musically that is...

I only cry to trve black metal

You got any of that?

Also: folk music

Cult of Personality? LOL

I was listening to Venom earlier. That's 1st wave...

Fellas, this is a folk only space

Bela Fleck might split the difference...

I’ve cried to this!

Venom is Folk for Satanists.

I've cried to this and Fairest of the Seasons. Damn you Jackson Browne!! I hate Somebody's Baby!

You know, that does kinda work

Speaking yet again about Iggy, the song Candy on Brick by Brick is about her.

Nico that is

Nico...not a good person!

Here’s a cry-worthy song

Not a good person, great fucking artist, I would’ve hated her

Is Iggy dead yet? Not sure he can be dead...

Well, she was with Iggy during the recording of the first Stooges album just to irritate Lou Reed. She apparently broke Iggy then just left him.

Iggy's still playing at 78.

Sound Irish. Irish eye's...

Iggy will survive with the roaches after the bombs drop

That dude looks like gristle, like bacon wrapped in barbed wire, I hope I’m that ugly when I hit my 70’s

Iggy's a kaiju. Just a really short one. He'll be on Monster Island eventually. Between Rodan and Varan.

He just might survive as jerky that doesn't spoil indeed.

Loving this song, don’t think I know Cinder Well

Well he is a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm

And the runaway son of the nuclear a-bomb. Like Gamera, Godzilla and SpongeBob.

Cinder Well is a new LA based songwriter!

American roots music is drop tuning Irish Pentatonic. The blues are like it, but 1,4,5 is 1,4,5.

Spongebob unfortunately would win any kaiju battle, he is too strong

He and Godzilla are brothers. They both became what they are because of the Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll.

Oh yeah, that is true, and Godzilla can scream radioactive beams they use to also fly

S'truth

By the by, this album is great

Genuinely one of the best releases this year

That Marisa Anderson album has a fascinating backstory https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/marisa-anderson-the-anthology-of-unamerican-folk-music/

She took 900 songs from Harry Smith's archives and focused on folk music from countries that the US has historically tried to invade or otherwise start shit in

Anyway, John Prine

Cool

It's here ... bedtime. Thx for all the folk tonight, Dana K!

This one ALSO makes me cry believe it or not

Goodnight Rob!

and good night everyone

This song is a total cry-inducer!

Wow i was just watching this video of john prine on snl. Hello in there!

"On the first volume of The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, Anderson finds a way to show us her own image reflected in all of this study." I mean, so do we all. Should we study...

Ooh I need to watch John Prine on SNL!

John Prine is Americana! So is Stevie Wonder.

Anyway, America was nice while it lasted. Thanks Dana, see ya...

Oooo this is so nice

This is the lady that went "missing" recently

Oh yeah, what a weird story

This is also a Tim Buckley cover

Oh, apparently Linda Perlhacs has been found

Yes

Thankfully!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AsrtAacWT/

Thank you, Community Cats!

Who is Linda?

Cats love John Prine!

Yoni, we do!

Dana K youre welcome

The violinist on that Dalton track was also in Electric Flag. How cool!

@cats Linda Perhacs released a fantastic album in like 1970 that wasn’t appreciated until decades later

Gotta go. Night everyone

Gnight

Awesome show, Dana!

David Wiffen is the songwriter

Goodnight everyone and thank you!